It’s Christmas. Ahhh, that joyous time of year when the little ones are home from school which means. . .yelling, screaming, slamming doors, tears, boredom. What’s a mommy to do? This mommy took off work for a week just to be the PeaceKeeper. Not a good or Peace-On-Earth kind of scenario at all!
I was stalking my friends on Facebook today as my two boys were fighting over the couch.
“Nate, get your toe off of me.”
“I was here first Daniel.”
“No you weren’t.”
“Yes, I was.”
“DON’T TOUCH ME AGAIN!!!”
“So get off the couch.”
Finally in my calmest, most sensible Mommy voice I did what any Mom would do. I yelled.
“STOP IT!”
The little one left sniffling for his room.
Then on one of my friend’s Facebook pages I saw that she too was struggling with the same thing. And SHE had a friend who had a suggestion. So, I tried it.
I called Nate and Daniel back out, made them sit next to each other on the couch and told them they couldn’t get up til they looked at each other and said 5 nice things about each other.
The third thing that came out of Daniel’s mouth was, “Nate, I like your toe nails.”
HUH!?
They started giggling. Then they hugged. Mission accomplished.
As I write the two oldest are doing this exercise.
“Laura I like your jeans, I like you more than dirt.”
Sigh. Well, it’s a start.
And don’t forget, I like your toe nails.
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